attacked

Meaning of attacked

verb
  1. To apply violent force to someone or something.
    This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.
  2. To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
    She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts.
  3. To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
  4. To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
    I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite.
  5. To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
  6. To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
  7. To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
  8. To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
  9. To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

Information about attacked

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of attacked

at-tacked

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • attacked is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with attacked

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